MOSUL, Iraq | When the Americans arrived, they found Iraq chock-a-block with Soviet-era armaments -- tanks, guns, mortar rounds and ammunition -- left over from the days when Saddam Hussein was one of Moscow's best arms customers.

BAGHDAD | The toppling of a statue of Saddam Hussein, marking the fall of Baghdad to U.S.-led coalition forces, did not escape controversy when a U.S. Marine temporarily draped an American flag over the statue's head and an Army report…

MOSUL, Iraq | We're out in a nine-humvee convoy with Federal Police Gen. Hamid Mohsin Al-Taey, whose Baghdad-based unit has the job of weeding anti-government insurgents out of western Mosul far to the north. It's the most dangerous section of…

Iraqis' feelings about their country's future are best reflected in what they say about their own personal dreams. The younger ones appear less scarred -- their parents' and grandparents' generations seem far more so. Here's a sampling of people we've…

_pap_embed_custom('news01s4286qf2c',482,304,""); BAGHDAD | As Margaret Warner continues her series of reports from Iraq on the state of the country as the U.S. ends its official combat mission there, she's looking at the country's ongoing security problems, how…